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Complete List of Upcoming Events
2009–2010
Upcoming: March 10, 2010: Career Panel Discussion
November 4, 2009: Panel Discussion
October 29: New JD-MBA Joint Degree Program
2008–2009
Spring Financial Crisis Lecture Series2007–2008
January 5: Panel Discussion
December 3: Career Panel Discussion
November 20: Career Panel Discussion
October 2: Panel Discussion
September 23: Career Panel Discussion
April 15: Career Panel Discussion2006–2007
November 14: Career Panel Discussion
Spring 2007: Yale Symposium on Corporate Governance2002–2006
October 2005 Symposium: "Reassessing Director Elections"
October 2003: International Symposium in Paris
February 2002: Enron Panel Discussion
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Panel Discussion, November 4, 2009 The Center hosted a panel discussion entitled "Lawyering and the Financial Crisis" with panelists: Brian Daly, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, Raptor Group Holdings LP, Lauren Teigland-Hunt, Managing Partner, Tiegland-Hunt LLP and David Zimmerman, General Counsel, Quantitative Financial Structurings. Reshma Saujani '02, YLS Research Scholar moderated. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law and Business Society. |
New JD-MBA Joint Degree Program, October 29, 2009
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"Is the New YLS-SOM Accelerated Integrated 3-year JD-MBA Joint Degree Program for You?" A conversation with panelists: Beth Foster ’11 (JD and MBA expected); Kristen Ghaddis '10 (JD and MBA expected); Barry Nalebuff, Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, SOM; Doug Rand '10 (JD and MBA expected); Eric Robinson '83 JD and MBA, Partner (Corporate Group), Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and YLS Visiting Lecturer in Law; Roberta Romano, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.
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Financial Crisis Lecture Series, Spring 2009
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Over the 2009 Spring term, the Center sponsored a program on the financial crisis, “Industry Perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis,” a series of lectures and panels featuring prominent executives of financial institutions, legal practitioners and financial journalists. The series was hosted by Gregory J. Fleming '88, YLS Senior Research Scholar, Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow, and former President and Chief Operating Officer, Merrill Lynch & Co., and Roberta Romano ‘80, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and Center Director. The series was co-sponsored with the Yale Law and Business Society, with selected programs also co-sponsored with the Yale Law and Media Program.
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 Nina Sassoon '10 |
 Rodge Cohen |
 A view from the audience |
 From left: Lawrence Makow, Roberta Romano '80, Jon Eisenberg, Greg Fleming '88, Rodge Cohen |
Panel Discussion, January 5, 2009
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The Yale Law School Association of Northern California, the Yale School of Management and the Center for the Study of Corporate Law hosted a panel discussion entitled "The Financial Crisis: How did we get here and where are we going?" with panelists: Gary B. Gorton, Professor of Finance, Yale, SOM, Michael Klausner '81, Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, Andrew Metrick, Professor of Finance, Yale, SOM. Roberta Romano '80, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and Center Director moderated.
 From left: Gary B. Gorton, Roberta Romano '80, Andrew Metrick and Michael Klausner '81 |
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Career Panel Discussion, December 3, 2008 The Center hosted a panel discussion entitled "What Do Transactional Lawyers Do?" with panelists: Peter Schwartz '98, Covington & Burling LLP, Aaron Schlaphoff '04, Davis Polk & Wardwell, and Lara Phimister '04, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr LLP. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law School Career Development Office. |
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Career Panel Discussion, November 20, 2008 The Center hosted a panel discussion entitled "Careers in Banking, Hedge Funds and Private Equity" with panelists: John Kim '00, Southfield Investment Management LLC and John Wright '05, Rollins Capital. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law School Career Development Office and the Yale Law and Business Society. |
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Panel Discussion, October 2, 2008 | Video | The Center hosted a panel discussion entitled "What's Going on in the Financial Markets?", with panelists: William Goetzmann, Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies, Yale SOM, Gary Gorton, Professor of Finance, Yale SOM, Jonathan Macey, Deputy Dean and Sam Harris Professor of Law, Yale Law School, and Andrew Metrick, Professor of Finance,Yale SOM. |
Career Panel Discussion, September 23, 2008
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The Center hosted a panel discussion entitled "What Does a General Counsel Do?" with panelists: Ben Heineman '71, former General Counsel, General Electric; Siri Marshall '74, former General Counsel, General Mills, Inc.; and William McDavid '72, former General Counsel, JP Morgan Chase. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law School Career Development Office and Yale Law & Business Society.
It is not possible to understand the contemporary legal profession without understanding the key role corporate general counsels play in assuring performance with integrity in business operations; in shaping corporate governance, public policy and the relationship between inside and outside lawyers; and in globalization. It is also not an exaggeration to say that a lawyer in her professional career will sooner or later, 
if not quite frequently, come into contact with a general counsel, either as a client, employer or adversary. Because "business in society" risks and opportunities have grown dramatically in the past 15 years (from complying with Sarbanes-Oxley to doing business in China), general counsels are often in the inner core of senior corporate management, peers of chief financial officers and close, independent advisors to boards of directors. Yet law students are rarely exposed to general counsel and are provided little, if any, information regarding what a general counsel does, before completing their studies. This distinguished panel of YLS graduates who were general counsels at leading public corporations sought to address that deficiency, by discussing what general counsels do, how their work has changed, and the challenges and rewards of the position, which is becoming the linchpin for maintaining corporate integrity.
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Career Panel Discussion April 15, 2008 The Center hosted a panel discussion entitled "Careers in Banking, Hedge Funds and Private Equity." Rishi Gupta '04, OrbiMed Advisors, LLC, Jonathan Lewinsohn '06, Anchorage Capital Group and John Wright '05, Silver Lake Partners, discussed the kinds of opportunities available to Yale Law graduates in banking, hedge funds, private equity and other finance-related fields. Co-sponsored with the YLS Career Development Office and Yale Law and Business Society. |
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Career Panel Discussion, November 14, 2007 The Center hosted a panel discussion entitled "What Do Corporate Lawyers Do?" Stuart Barkoff, Arnold & Porter LLP, Christina Padden '01, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Kory Langhofer '06, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, dicussed the kinds of work performed by corporate lawyers in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, finance and other practice areas. The event was co-sponsored by the Yale Law School Career Development Office and the Yale Law and Business Society. |
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Yale Symposium on Corporate Governance, Spring 2007
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This interdisciplinary symposium, jointly sponsored by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law and the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management, brought to Yale distinguished scholars from a variety of disciplines to present current research on corporate governance, broadly defined to encompass cutting-edge issues of the day concerning business organizations and the markets and regulatory environments in which they operate. Michael C. Jensen, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard Business School, gave the inaugural symposium at the Law School. His topic was "Integrity: A Positive Model with Applications to Corporate Governance and Finance."
 (From left:) Yale School of Management Professor Shyam Sunder and Dean Joel Podolny, Roberta Romano '80, Michael Eisenson (JD and MPPM '81), Michael Jensen, and Dean Harold Koh. |
 Michael Jensen |
 Professors Al Klevorick and Ian Ayres '86 |
Symposium on: "Reassessing Director Elections," October 7, 2005
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The Center sponsored an all-day symposium at the Law School on "Reassessing Director Elections." The symposium brought together a mix of academics, practitioners, members of the investment community and government. The program consisted of four panels that discussed: consideration of alternatives to plurality voting; the role and perspective of institutions in elections, a comparative perspective on director elections in other countries; and issues of federalism and elections.
A grant from the Milton and Miriam Handler Foundation provided financial support for the symposium.
 Panelists discuss alternatives to plurality voting in director elections. From left: Alan Gerber, Margaret M. Foran, Robert Todd Lang '47, and John Wilcox. |
 Jonathan Macey '82 makes a point during a session on Federalism and Elections, as Lucian Bebchuk looks on. |
 Panelists discuss director elections abroad. From left: Guido Ferrarini '78 LLM, Reinier Kraakman '79, Roberta Romano '80, Mark Ramseyer, and Laurence Hazell. |
International Symposium on: "Assessing Corporate Law Reform in the Transatlantic Context," October 21, 2003, Paris, France
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Keynote Address by Jean-François Lepetit, Chairman of the Commission des Opérations de Bourse
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| Pictured from left: YLS Prof. Alan Schwartz '64; Jean-François LePetit, Chairman of the Commission des Opérations de Bourse; YLS Prof. Roberta Romano '80;YLS Dean Anthony Kronman '75; and Reid Feldman '71, LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae LLP, Paris. |
Panels on corporate governance reform, financial market reform, the proposed EU takeover directive and corporate restructuring and mobility explored the public-policy decisions being made, the stakes for market participants and for society, and the concrete results expected.
 Jean-François Lepetit, Chairman of the Commission des Opérations de Bourse |
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Enron Panel Discussion, February 15, 2002
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The Center hosted a panel discussion on the fall of Enron, entitled "The Enron Situation: A View from the Professions." The discussion was moderated by Alan Schwartz '64, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, and included William T. Allen, professor of law and clinical professor of business at New York University, where he is also the director of the NYU Center for Law and Business, and founding chair of the Independence Standards Board; Rick Antle, senior associate dean and professor of accounting at the Yale School of Management; Richard Ippolito, professor of law at George Mason University and former chief economist, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; Eugene A. Ludwig '73, managing partner of Promontory Financial Group and former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency; Roberta Romano '80, the Allen Duffy/Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale Law School; and Michael Shepherd, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of The Bank of New York Company, Inc. and former Senior Deputy Comptroller of the Currency and Associate Counsel to the President of the United States.
 Panelists (from left): Alan Schwartz '64, Richard Ippolito and Rick Antle |
 Panelists (from left): Michael Shepherd, William T. Allen and Roberta Romano '80 |
 Eugene A. Ludwig '73 |
